Guardian Academy

By

Maricruz Covarrubias and LenoreFan

Disclaimer: Blade is the copyright property of Marvel Comics. Casper's Scare School is the copyright property of Classic Media/Moonscoop/Dreamworks. Dragonball/Z/GT is the copyright property of Akira Toriyama. Hellboy is the copyright property of Dark Horse Comics. Hellsing is the copyright property of Kouta Hirano. Lupin III is the copyright property of Kozuhiko Kato(Monkey Punch). Sailor Moon is the copyright property of Naok Takeuchi. The Shadow is the copyright property of Walter B. Gibson. Archie Connel, Amanda, Aunt Vespa, Catcher, Cecilia, Cueyatl Brothers , and Sir Wallace Crumble are mine. Repo the Genetic Opera is the copyright property of Lionsgate. Glenn Thompson, Rick Jordan, Quentin Johnson. and Daniel Smith are the copyright properties of LenoreFan. Richard Griffin is the copyright property of SilversLittleAngel18

Chapter 02: Roll call and Explanation.

The boys' dormitory was wondrous in it's simplicity with it's plush magenta carpets and imperial purple walls and sunburst colored doors:) "Whoa check this place out!" Ra was intrigued by how it look. "I can't wait to see what are dorm rooms are like!"

"Alright now you guys, settle down!" Blade got the boys attention. "Now each of you are assigned to a room and you will be given a roommate, however, most of them are humans."

Many of the male creatures murmured among themselves with mixed reactions. "That's enough! I can see why you all feel this way. Many of you from your old school were taught that humans were considered as the enemy and that you weren't suppose to associate with them. But that's not how we do things in our school. In Guardian Academy, humans and creatures are treated as equals. So I strongly advise that if a chance that any of you would wind up with a human roommate, you better treat each with kindness and respect, other wise, it's ten demerits on your record and detention will be cleaning up the training field for a month. Do I make myself clear?"

"Sir Yes Sir!" The boys respond in a salute.

"Not necessary to salute, but I like it." Blade gave a sly smile. "When I call your names, I will give you a key to your room with a number on it and if you find a door that has the same number, that will be your room."

Everyone kept silent and waited for Blade to call them.

"Glenn Thompson and Rick Jordan!"

Two human boys approached Blade. They took their key and went to find their room.

"Quentin Johnson and Daniel Smith!"

"Ra Pharoh and Archie Connel!" Ra and a human boy with light brown hair and freckles approached Blade. He gave them their keys and went to find their room. Ra quickly opened the door and stared in awe at the room. It had aqua blue walls with a golden yellow carpet and white curtains on the windows. There were two beds, both are standard twin beds made of oak with temprapetic mattresses and drawer storages in the bases. One has a orange-red blanket and pale green bed-sheets with a matching pillow, the other has gold yellow blanket with white bed-sheets and pillow.

"I called on the gold yellow bed!" Ra got dibs.

"That's cool." Archie took the other bed. "By the way, my name is Archie." He introduced himself and extended his hand.

"Hi, I'm Ra." Ra quickly accepted Archie's hand and shook it.

"Where do you come from?" Asked Archie.

"I was born in Egypt but I used to go to school in the Underworld." Ra told his story.

"Really? That's cool." Archie was impressed.

"Thanks. What about you?" Ra wants to know Archie more.

"Well I have lived in the Middle World all my life and this is my first year in the academy." Said Archie.

"That's awesome!" Ra was awestruck by Archie's answer.

"Yeah, Middle World is the perfect place for creatures and humans can live together without fear." Archie provided.

"Did the humans and creatures have any trouble co-existing?." Ra asked.

"Not that I know, but ever since I was little, my parents told me that the Middle World have been around some time after humans and creatures first existed." Archie explained the best he could.

"Oh, well so I won't have to worry about Creature Catchers anymore?"

"Creature Catchers?" Archie repeated with a confused look on his face.

"Never mind." Ra finished as he and Archie started unpacking.

Meanwhile over at the girls dormitory, Setsuna was giving the girls their dorm room assignments. "Mantha Deceased and Zoe Vanders."

Mantha went up to Setsuna to pick up her key along with a human girl and went to find their room. The girl looked about 13 years old and had long, light brown hair with a black beanie on her head and brown eyes, she wore a black leather jacket with several button pins on it over a mulberry shirt with the words 'Freedom Power' in faded print on the front, faded blue jeans with holes on the knees and brown boots.

Once the girls reached their room, Mantha opened the door and entered the room. The carpet in the room was white and the walls were painted a faded shade of fuchsia pink. There were two twin size beds in the room, one of the beds had red comforter, bed-sheets and pillowcases while the other bed was identical except it was all purple instead of red. There was a night stand next to each bed, a window showing the forest and a small closet.

"Not too bad, a little girly for my taste but I think work on it." Mantha was admiring the room, then she sees Zoe. "Hi, I'm Mantha." She extended her hand.

"Hey, I'm Zoe." Zoe shook Mantha's hand until it came off.

"Sorry, it's a zombie thing." Mantha was truly embarrassed by that.

"It's okay, I've seen that in a lot of zombie movies." Zoe help Mantha put her arm back in.

"Thanks, so I'm guess that we are going to be roommates." Mantha adjusted her arm a bit.

"Yeah, it's going to be awesome." Zoe was confident about this school year.

"So did you always live here in the Middle World?" Asked Mantha.

"Actually, I commune here, I really lived in Vashon Island, WA," Zoe said, "You are from the Underworld aren't you?"

"Yeah, but my family moved here after my old school closed down." Mantha confided in Zoe.

"Great. The Middle World is the best place ever." Said Zoe.

"Yes it is. I think it's awesome that there is a place where humans and creatures can live together and get along." Mantha smiled at her new friend.

"Indeed." Said Zoe.

They did a fist bump and chose their beds.

Back at the boys' dorm, Blade was almost done with the dorm assignments.

"Thatch Dolob and Richard Griffin."

Thatch and a human boy went to pick up their keys. The human had black shoulder length hair and wore a white shirt under a black windbreaker with matching jeans and sneakers.

The creature students were surprised that Thatch seemed willing to share a dorm with a human and whispered among themselves. Blade gave them his 'be quiet' look and they went silent.

Thatch heard what they said yet he tried to ignore them and went on to find his dorm.

Once they found their room, Thatch thought this will be a good time to actually get to know this human. "Hi, I'm Thatch."

"My name is Richard."

The boys shook hands.

"I think I saw you on the news after the whole incident with the ghost and the Jekyll 'n' Hyde potion." Said Richard.

"Yeah, we are all very sorry about that." Thatch put his hand behind his head and gave a nervous chuckle.

"Don't be. It wasn't your fault."

Thatch now has a sad frown on his face. "Actually, I was the blame for it. I said nasty things to Casper that started him off."

"But if the headmasters hadn't given Casper the potion none of that would have happened in the first place." Said Richard.

"Well I just want to set things right. I was a real bully back in Scare School." Thatch confide.

"Well, it's great you quit bullying." Said Richard.

"Thanks, though I do still play pranks every once in a while, just not at school grounds and not on innocent people." Thatch admitted. "So what brings you to Guardian Academy?"

"I got into fights a lot at my former school and I have trouble socializing overall so my parents thought sending me here could be good for me." Said Richard.

"Sounds like something we have in common." Said Thatch.

Thatch and Richard high fived each other.

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"Mickey Skeletwin and Marla Sanchez."

Mickey and Monoco were shocked to hear only one of their names. This was the first time they ever been separated.

Mickey and her new human roommate went to pick up their keys. Mickey looked at her carefully. Marla seemed no older than thirteen, she had long black hair, brown eyes and tan skin.

Mickey and Monoco exchanged a worried look before Mickey and Marla left to find their rooms.

Mickey was being a bit nervous, she's never been without Monoco before nor she's been with a human before, at least not without scaring them. Despite how she is feeling, the skeleton girl is going to try and to get to know her new roommate.

"Like hi." Mickey gave a friendly wave.

"Hi." Said Marla with a friendly smile.

Well at least it's a start. Mickey thought to herself. "So like where are you from?"

"I'm from Guadalajara, Mexico." Said Marla.

"Oh cool!" Mickey became interested. "My sister and I have some relatives in Mexico."

"Nice." Said Marla.

"Yeah, so what made you decide to come to Guardian Academy." Mickey asked.

"I hear that this has a great fashion program and I want to make clothing designs for plus size girls, like me." Marla answered.

"That's great!" Said Mickey.

"Thanks." Marla smiled.

Maybe we can get along after all. Mickey and Marla shared the same though.

Slither and Sanjay Barad were the last to be called. Slither wasn't pleased about having to share a room with a human.

Sanjay was a bit weary about Slither, but he decided to keep his opinions about him to himself until they got to know each other.

"All right, now that you got your assigned rooms, we shall meet back here in about one hour," Blade shouted, "That should give you plenty of time to settle down, then we'll report back to the auditorium so that we can discuss about your classes and schedules."

Once Blade was done speaking, the crowd dispersed while Casper wasted no time and gathered Ra and Mantha from their respective rooms.

"So do you like your dorms?" Casper asked his friends.

"It's nice, although mine's a bit too girly." Said Mantha.

"Mine's great!" Said Ra.

"I'm glad to hear it." Said Casper.

"So what do you want to talk to us about?" Asked Ra.

"Well it's about Thatch." Casper rubbed the back of his head.

Mantha rolled her eyes. "What about him?" She asked.

"Remember what I was going to tell you why he is here?" Casper reminded her.

"Yes." Said his friends, although the truth was that they weren't really interested in Thatch or his life.

"Well it turns out that his parents didn't really want him to kill Kibosh: they wanted him to be killed by Kibosh." Said Casper.

"WHAT!?." Cried Mantha and Ra were in complete and utter shock.

"It's all true. It was part of his mother's plan." Said Casper.

Ra and Mantha just stared at him, not knowing what to say as Casper started with his story. "It was about a month later after I recovered from the incident."

* Flashback *

On top of the Carpathian Mountains sits an ancient castle that is owned by the Dolob clan. Sitting in the library is an older female vampire that has the family V mark in her long hair who is reading a novel and drinking some tea and A+ that is being served by an older male vampire who also have the V mark. They are Kasha and her husband Armadeus.

Just then, one of the servants nervously came in on account that she fears Kasha. "Beggin' your pardon Mi Lord and Mi Lady." The servant bowed respectably.

"What is it?" Kasha replied in an irritated tone. "Can't you see that I don't like to be disturb?"

"Forgive me for this intrusion Mrs. Dolob, but there is a visitor in the main office." The servant doesn't dare to look at Kasha in the eye.

"Who ever it is, just tell them we are not interested." Kasha responded.

"But Madam, it concerns about your son." That somewhat gained Kasha's interest.

"Dear, maybe it something to do with Thatch's progress at Scare School." Armadeus assumed.

"Very well." Kasha closed her book and rose up from her chair. "Lead us to them."

"As you wish, Mi Lady." The servant took Kasha and Armadeus to the main office.

Once they got there, the servant left Kasha and Armadeus and closed the doors behind them. "So where are these so called visitors." Kasha doesn't like to have her time wasted.

When in an instant, the office chair swiveled forward towards them and revealed Thatch. "Hello Mom and Dad." He greeted them in a sarcastic way.

"Thatch?" Both said Kasha and Armadeus. They were shocked to see their son home so soon.

"Thatch, my son." Armadeus tried to look happy. "How are things going at Scare School?"

"Oh nothing much, except that I have decided not go back to Scare School." Thatch told them blatantly.

"WHAT?!" His parents couldn't believe what he just said.

"Yup, I now realized that Scare School isn't for me and I was given a better offer."

"Now listen up Young Man!" Kasha refuses to let Thatch to make this decision. "You better get rid of that nonsense thinking if you wish to remain in this family!"

"What your mother means is that we don't want you waste your life if you don't go back to Scare School." Armadeus tries to soften the blow.

"Yeah about that." Thatch has something up his sleeve. "While I was waiting for you two, I did some light reading and found something interesting." He open one of the desk drawers and pulled out something which turns out to be Kasha's Journal.

Kasha was a bit startled but regain her composure. "That still doesn't explain why you wouldn't go back to Scare School."

"Well maybe I'm just not the scaring type." Thatch admitted.

"But Son, that's why you have to go." Armadeus tries to persuade Thatch to change his mind. "You have so much potential."

"Please Dad, you know that I don't have what it takes." Thatch told him.

"But don't you want to be a great leader and become king of the Underworld one day?" Kasha asked him.

"That's never going happen." Thatch answered. "Everyone knows that I am the worst scarer ever."

"That's why you need Scare School." Kasha debated. "So that one day you'll be the most terrifying creature and then Kibosh will pick you to be the new king."

"Even if I did, he's never going to make me king." Thatch rebutted. "Besides, he was going to pass it down to Casper anyway."

"Casper?" Kasha repeated. "What does that pathetic little ghost that you kept talking about have anything to do with this conversation?"

"Because Casper is his son."

"WHA?!" Kasha's and Armadeus's jaws dropped when Thatch told them that part.

"It's all true. Kibosh told everyone about it."

"So what?" Kasha is still not convince. "Casper is so, ugh, friendly. You on the other hand are much more qualified."

"You can drop the act, Mom." Thatch can see right through his mother's words. "You were never this much faithful to Cecilia and Catcher."

"I thought I told you never mention those names!" Kasha demanded.

"What she means is that it's been hard on us ever since they died." Armadeus stepped in.

"Oh really?" When Thatch said that, Cecilia and Catcher stepped out of the shadows.

Kasha and Armadeus nearly had heart attacks when they saw the twins both alive and well and carrying guns at them.

"Hello you two." Cecilia.

"It's been a long time." Catcher.

"Oh my! It's a miracle!" Armadeus tried to look happy to see their children again. "Look Dear, the twins have come back..."

"Can it, Old Man!" Catcher cut off his ex-father.

"Thatch won't put up with your lies any more!" Cecilia told them.

"What is the meaning of this!?" Kasha demanded.

"It's quite a funny story really." Thatch starts to explain. "I ran into Catcher and Cecilia during Casper's rampage in Deeds Town."

"Oh, how wonderful." Armadeus was sweating bullets.

"Tell that to those who lost their lives." Cecilia shut him up.

Thatch continues talking. "Anyway, while I was recovering from my injury, Ms Natellie, Casper's mother, and I started talking and I told her about me and the family and what did you two wanted me to do. When I told her what happen to my older siblings she told me something very interesting."

"Oh really, what could that be, Son?" Armadeus was too nervous to want to know the answer while Kasha kept a stern face.

"That Catcher and Cecilia are still alive, as you can see right now, and they have been going to another school, after you two kicked them out of the clan!"

"How Dare You..." Kasha was about to charge to Thatch when Armadeus tried to restrain her.

"Now now My Love." Armadeus turned to Thatch. "Please Son, try to understand. We were only tried to protect you."

"Protect me?" Thatch repeated. "Protect me? All you do is lying to me!"

Armadeus grimaced and looked at his wife, who was as nervous as him but managed to conceal it.

"We lied for your own good! We didn't want the twins to be a bad influence to you! We couldn't have you be weak and pathetic like them!" Kasha yelled.

"But it's okay for you to make me feel like that?'!" Thatch debated.

"We are just trying to motivate you to do your best." Armadeus said hesitantly.

But Thatch can tell that's a lie. "No, you were trying to make me something that I am not!"

"What do you know?! You're just a child!." Kasha said.

Thatch opened his mouth to speak but every time he did Kasha cut him off with a harsh "Shut Up!"

Cecilia and Catcher pointed their guns at their former mother. "Do not talk to our brother in that tone!" Cecilia warned her.

"You wouldn't dare!" Said Kasha.

"Try us." Catcher dared her.

"Dear, please," Armadeus whispered to his wife, squeezing her arms slightly, "We were just trying to make an obedient, strong, brave child out of you."

"No you two want me to be a killer, or to be more precises, to be killed!." Thatch opened the journal to the pages were it mentioned having Thatch to be sent to Kibosh so that he can kill the King of the Underworld but in hopes that Thatch will be killed by Kibosh instead as act of self defense so that it can create a scandal, forcing Kibosh to step down as king.

Armadeus and Kasha looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

"And what about this?" Said Thatch as he flipped the pages until he stopped on the ones that had two symbols of Stapini Sigiliu-Also know as The Control Seal. It's a hand that is holding a stick in a tight grip to represent control, and the Suprimare Sigiliu-It is used to block out vampire powers. It's as large black flame like shape that has one big circle in the middle with the letters S and P on top of one another and fourteen small circles that contains symbols that represent each power. The ones that are darken are blocked off(Super Speed, Super Strength, Telekinesis, hypnosis, and shadow control) The ones that are lighten are still locked(Telepathy, Teleport, Soul Search, Regenerate, Heal, BATtle Form, Mind Control, Smoke Screen, and Mind Eye.) Only Bat Transformation and Bite are usable. The Stapini Sigiliu was printed on the top left side of Thatch's chest and the Suprimare Sigiliu on Thatch's stomach.

This time Kasha was no longer able to hide her fear. She and Armadeus just stood there in silence.

"What's the matter, Mom and Dad, cat got your tongues?" Thatch finally figured it out why he doesn't have any of his powers.

Kasha glared at her son but said nothing.

"Well since you two don't have anything else to say, I'll be taking my leave, but before I do, I have just several requests." Thatch told them.

What is it?" growled Kasha.

Thatch pulled out a list of demands.

"First, I want a transferred from Scare School to Guardian Academy so that I can be with Cecilia and Catcher. Second, I want you two give up your titles as heads of this family and turn them over to Aunt Vespa. Finally, I no longer wish to be your son since I now know that none of you have any intentions of making me part of the clan. Also, I want to take Thistle with me so that she won't have to suffer the same way as I did."

Kasha gave Thatch a hateful look.

"Alright." Said Armadeus, a sad and apologetic look on his face.

Kasha's jaw completely dropped when she heard him said that. "Are you mad?!" She yelled. "You're not really going let him get away with this!?"

"We don't have much of a choice." Said Armadeus.

"No! I will Not Allow This To Happen!" Kasha refuses to give up.

"And how are you going to stop us?" Asked Thatch.

"I shall report you to Kibosh! He'll will believe me!" Kasha thought she has the upper hand.

"Not bloody likely!" A well known voice came out of nowhere and Kibosh materialized.

Kasha and Armadeus took a step back.

"Y-your evilness!" Armadeus saluted, "What do I owe the honor of your presence here?"

"Can the suck-up, Armadeus!" Kibosh barked. "I heard everything."

Armadeus and Kasha froze in place.

Kibosh crossed his arms. "So you two thought you could get away with this?"

Armadeus and Kasha kept quiet while they racked their brains for an answer.

"Very well, if that's how it is, as your king I hereby arrest you two, Count Armadeus and Countess Kasha for child abuse, child neglect, child endangerment, attempted murder, and conspiring against your king." Kibosh declared. "I also demand that you two have your titles stripped and pass down your positions to whomever is second in your clan."

"That would be me." Aunt Vespa made her appearance as she stepped out of the shadows."It's about time somebody was doing something about this."

"Vespa please, you're not really going to go through all of this?," Armadeus begged. "You are my-"

"Stop!" Vespa cut him off. "You lost that right to call me that when you married that trash from the insane asylum!"

"HOW DARE YOU CALL ME-" Kasha was about to lunge after Vespa but Vespa stopped her in her tracks.

"Don't ever try to test me!" Said Vespa in a low but threatening voice and her eyes glowing red.

Kasha reluctantly kept quiet.

Vespa put on her reading glasses and unrolled her list of demands. "First, I want full custody of the children. All four of them."

Armadeus and Kasha looked at each other.

"Fine." Said Armadeus.

"Second I want Thatch and Thistle to live with their older siblings and I in the Middle World so that I can have them enrolled in Guardian Academy."

"What?! No!" Cried Kasha.

"You can't do this to me Vespa!" Cried Armadeus. He knew that the chances of seeing his children again were very unlikely if he allowed this.

"Under my authority, she can." Said Kibosh.

Armadeus sighed. "Fine." He said with a sad look on his face.

"Finally, I request that Armadeus and Kasha shall be removed from this castle and bannish from this clan, until at least one of you realize the errors of your ways" And by that, Vespa means Armadeus.

"What?!" Cried the vampire couple.

"What you heard." Said Vespa with arms crossed and a solemn look on her face.

Kasha growled, fists shaking in anger. Armadeus grabbed her arm to keep her from attacking anyone.

"Fine."

"Now that's taken care of, Catcher! Cecilia!" Vespa signaled her niece and nephew to take hold of their now ex-parents.

Cecilia grabbed Kasha in the arm in a good tight grip. "I don't have to take orders from you."

"But I am your mother!" Kasha reminded Cecilia

"You may have given birth to us, but you were never our mother." Cecilia told her off and she and Catcher hauled Kasha and Armadeus out of the office.

*Flashback ends *

"And that's was the last that Thatch ever saw his parents." Casper finished up the story.

Mantha and Ra just stared at him at awed.

"No way." Ra broke the silence.

"Come on, none of that really happened, did it?" Mantha wasn't so sure about Casper's story.

"It's all true." Casper swore by it. "After Cecilia and Catcher took Kasha and Armadeus away, Thatch gave Kasha's journal as evidence."

"But I don't get it." Ra was still confused by all of this. "Why would his own parents go through all of that trouble just have Kibosh stepped down as king?"

"Kasha wanted true immortality." Casper answered

Mantha and Ra were befuddled when Casper said that.

"Um pardon me Casper, but aren't vampires already immortal?" Mantha tried to wrapped her head around all of this.

"So are zombies and mummies, but people have found ways to kill them." Casper told his friends.

"He does have a good point." Ra looked at Mantha he said.

Mantha never liked that fact but she does agrees with Casper. "Okay, but what do you mean by she wants true immortality?"

"She wanted to be a ghost." Casper stated in a matter of factly.

"A what?" Said both Mantha and Ra in shock.

"A ghost." Casper repeated.

"But why on Earth she wanted to be a ghost? No offense." Mantha hope that she didn't offend her friend.

Casper sees she meant no harm. "She thought that ghost can never get killed." He said. "Any one can shoot us, stabbed us, tried to throw sharp objects at us, even try to hit us or push us, but anything can go through us. Plus ghosts rarely age."

Mantha and Ra let all of this sink in.

Casper continues. "However, there are people who can make us pass over to the other side."

"Okay I get that Thatch's mother may want to be a ghost, but I still don't believe that story you told us." Mantha is still not convince.

"I thought you might said something like that." Casper was prepared for this and looked over his shoulder. "Okay, you can come out now.

And out from the corner was Thatch. "Hey guys." He greeted but still kept his distance.

"Thatch?" Ra was dumbfounded when saw the former bully of their old school.

"What is doing here?" Mantha thought that Thatch was up to no good.

"Relax you guys." Casper tried to calmed down his friends. "Thatch was the one asked me to tell you guys the story."

"He did?" Ra tilted his head and scratch it a bit.

"Yeah, he knew that no body would believe him if told the story himself." Casper confirmed.

"But that doesn't explained why he is here." Mantha still doesn't trust Thatch.

"So that I can show you this." Thatch open his shirt and revealed the two symbols that were in the story. The Stapini Sigiliu and the Suprimare Sigiliu.

"Wait are those are..." Ra was going to ask them about the symbols until Casper quickly answered.

"Yup, those are the two symbols I was talking about."

Mantha and Ra went over to Thatch to get a closer look at them.

"So the story was true?" Mantha asked.

"Ever last word." Thatch complied.

"Dude, we have no idea." Ra now feels bad about Thatch.

"As you two can see, these two symbols are pretty much part of Thatch's problem." Casper goes into detail. "This one on the left side of his chest is the stapini sigiliu, also known as the Control Seal, is where Thatch's heart should be."

"Should be?" Mantha repeated, fearing what the answer would be.

"In order for this seal to work, Kasha had to removed his heart." Casper said it in dismay.

"Oh my..." Ra nearly got sick while Mantha became dishearten.

"That's how Kasha kept Thatch in line." Casper told them.

"I can't believe she would ever do something like that!" Mantha now feels anger towards Thatch's mother.

"It's okay, I'm getting my heart back someday." Thatch tried to put their minds at ease.

"Someday?" Mantha repeated. How can he be okay by that?

"But shouldn't have your heart by now?" Ra couldn't believe Thatch has to wait to get his heart back.

"Because the only to put my heart back in, is that we have to get rid of this other symbol." Thatch pointed to the suprimare sigiliu on his stomach.

"That one is called the suprimare siguliu, also know as the suppression seal. It blocks out vampire's powers." Casper directed this symbol to his friends.

"Blocked out?" Ra fears the worst.

"You don't mean..." Mantha doesn't really want to know the answer.

"My parents wanted me to be weak enough so that Kibosh will kill me." Thatch answered.

"How could they do that to you?" Mantha tried to fight the tears.

"It's like Casper said, they wanted to create a scandal to have Kibosh removed from his place as king." Thatch reminded Casper's friends.

"Oh man, I am so sorry for what you had to go through, Thatch." Ra apologized with his head down low and burst into tears.

"It's okay." Thatch actually showed compassion.

"Besides, we learned that the seal is not fully invulnerable." Casper has some good news.

"What do you mean?" Ra stopped crying and dried up his tears with his bandage.

"Up until now, the only powers I ever had were bite and bat transformation." Thatch took his turn to speak.

"Yeah, I never thought about that." Mantha admitted.

"Yes, most vampires usually have other powers as well." Casper chimed in. "Like hypnosis, telepathy, shape shifting, and shadow control."

"And there are even vampires that have super strength and speed." Thatch.

"Yeah, but what does that have to do with anything?" Mantha was still not quite sure.

"Take a look here." Casper pointed to the smaller symbols inside the the big one on Thatch's stomach. "The ones that are darken are blocked off; Super Strength, Telekinesis, and hypnosis. The ones that are lighten are still locked; Telepathy, Teleport, Soul Search, Regenerate, Heal, BATtle Form, Mind Control, Smoke Screen, and Mind Eye."

"Okay." Mantha and Ra wanted to know where Casper is going with this.

"Well see the symbols for bite and transformation?" Casper pointed to the two symbols. The bat transformation looked like a small bat and the bite looks like two fangs.

"Yes." Mantha and Ra said it together.

"And look at the symbols for super speed and shadow control." Casper directed his friends to that symbol that looks like three wavy lines in a horizontal position and the other one with a small figure like black spot.

"Yeah so?" said Mantha.

"Well they used to be blocked off." Casper confirmed.

Mantha and Ra were taken back by Casper's answer.

"You mean..." For once, Mantha was happy for Thatch.

"The seal has been weakened." Casper finished for her.

"But how?" Ra was bewildered.

"Remember when I almost killed Mrs. Bradley and Amanda when I was in my evil form?" Casper's friends never wanted to bring that subject up but Casper had to in order to make sense of his explanation.

"Oh yeah, then Thatch burst out one of the barrels and in an instant, deflected that attack back." Ra now remembers.

"Right! That what caused the seal to weaken." Casper made his guess.

"So what you are saying that Thatch saving Jimmy's mom and cousin, got him to unblocked his super speed?" Mantha made sure she got it right.

"Yup, that one act of bravery actually helped Thatch" Casper placed a hand on Thatch's shoulder.

"Turns out that I didn't want to see Amanda getting hurt." Thatch admitted with a slight blush on his cheeks.

Mantha arched an eyebrow at Thatch's reaction but decided to keep quiet.

"Plus ever since I started training here in Guardian Academy, the shadow control also became unblock." Thatch announce.

"So that means that you can control shadows now?" Ra has never been happy for Thatch before.

"Yeah it does." Thatch was happy for that.

"There is one downside though." Said Casper.

"There is?" Ra wasn't sure what to make of that.

"They got to be unlocked one at time." Thatch told them.

"You're kidding." Ra couldn't believe that. "Why can't you unlock all of them?"

Just as Casper was going to answer that question, someone else beat him. "Because unlocking them all at once will kill him." It was Catcher and he and Cecilia came out from the same corner as Thatch did.

"Why?" Asked Mantha.

"Releasing all of those powers will way too over powering for him." Cecilia answered. "He needs learn how to master one before going after another."

"It's like going to an all you can eat buffet." Catcher tries to explain it the best he could. "If you actually tried to eat all at once, it will make you stuffed up and you cannot move, you won't be able to breathe, and then your heart stops."

"Aw, man." Said Ra, shocked.

"I have no idea." Mantha couldn't even describe how much this affects Thatch.

"It's okay." Said Thatch.

Everyone else went quiet as Thatch closes up his shirt. "That's why Cecilia and Catcher brought him to Guardian Academy." Casper broke the silence.

Catcher ruffled Thatch's hair playfully. "Yup, our little brother will do just fine here."

Thatch just chuckled a bit.

Just then they heard someone making an announcement over the intercom. "Alright that's enough resting. It's time to report back to the auditorium for your class schedules." It was Blade.

"Well I guess we should all get going." Casper advised.

A/N:Now everything has been cleared up, next will be schedules. What will Mantha and Ra think of their new classes? Find out in Guardian Academy.